Christian Heilmann

Oddly executed accessibility – hide the widget

June 17th, 2005

I just stumbled upon yet another web site widget that should enhance the accessibility and usability of the site, by offering different site widths and font sizes: My question now is who that really helps? A visitor with bad eyesight is not likely to be able to decypher what these icons mean. They do have […]

Three separated layers of web development? Think again.

June 16th, 2005

The three levels of web development – structure, presentation and behaviour – are not enough to ensure a standards compliant, accessible product. Being a human interaction issue, accessibility goes further. This proposal talks about two more levels and their dependencies.

USB Earrings – A usability nightmare

June 15th, 2005

Shifting my localhost to my cool new 1GB USB stick, I also discovered that the same company does jewellery with USB sticks. While my keyring one is still easy to use I really don’t see how you can work with either your neck or your ear connected to the USB outlet. :-)

Browser bug lists

June 15th, 2005

I have to give our test team some resources to spot different browser bugs. The client is one of those classic cases considering a web site only good when it looks the same on every outdated UA out there, and of course the main stakeholder uses IE5.0 on Windows NT. The question is now, are […]

CSS factory (@media call for participation)

June 12th, 2005

I bounced the following idea off some people at @media (Douglas Bowman, Molly and a lot of others) and I am ready to go along with it. It’d be good to hear some thoughts though: We all know and love CSSZengarden. It showed the design community what can be achieved with CSS and how easy […]

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Don't stop thinking, AI Slop vs. OSS Security, rolling your own S3 Despite AI you still need to think, Bitter lessons from building AI products,  AI Slop vs. OSS security and pointer pointer…
200: Building for the web, what's left after rm -rf & 🌊🐴 vs AI What remains after you do a rm -rf? Why do LLMs know about a seahorse emoji? What image formats should you use? How private is your car?
Word is Doomed, Flawed LLM benchmarks, hard sorting and CSS mistakes Spot LLM benchmark flaws, learn why sorting is hard, how to run Doom in Word and how to say "no" like a manager.
30 years of JS, Browser AI, how attackers use GenAI, whistling code Learn how to use AI in your browser and not on the cloud, why AI makes different mistakes than humans and go and whistle up some code!
197: Dunning-Kruger steroids, state of cloud security, puppies>beer

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